Jackdaw
By: Tade Thompson
3.66
Format: 156 pages, Kindle Edition
In this shocking, and at times darkly comic, novel, a psychiatrist hired to write a short piece on …
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1. Self-Portrait in Green
By: Jordan Stump , Marie NDiaye
3.64
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
It seems there is no genre of writing Marie NDiaye will not make her own. Asked to write a memoir, … read more
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- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
2. Such Small Hands
By: Edmund White , Andrés Barba , Lisa Dillman
4.04
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
"Every once in a while a novel does not record reality but creates a whole new reality, one that ca… read more
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- novella
- fiction
- horror
3. Fair Play
By: Ali Smith , Tove Jansson , Thomas Teal
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2009 Bernard Shaw Prize for Translation Fair Playis the type of love story that is ra… read more
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4. I Who Have Never Known Men
By: Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman
4.22
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
"As far back as I can recall, I have been in the bunker." A young woman is kept in a cage underg… read more
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- science fiction
- adult
- fiction
"Survival is never more than putting off the moment of death."-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men
"I thought it was unfair, and then I understood that, alone and terrified, anger was my only weapon against the horror"-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men
"Look at them. They’re pretending, they behave as though they still have some control over their lives and make momentous decisions about which vegetable to cook first."-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men
"Only now, I tell myself that what I'd felt for her, the trust that slowly built up, the constant preference for her company and the joy each time I was reunited with her after an expedition were prob…"-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men
5. Boulder
By: Eva Baltasar
3.89
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
La protagonista d'aquesta novel·la és una dona atreta per la solitud com per un imant. Es guanya la… read more
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- novella
- fiction
- contemporary
"Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adultos."-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"Y sin embargo he descubierto que no se puede columpiar a un hijo sin sonreír. Lo he intentado y es imposible. Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adul…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"I listen with all five senses, I listen to her with my entire body, with everything but my heart, which feels like it wants to thrash the hell out of me. This wasn't part of our plan. The truth is we…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"But all this tunneling has opened rifts through which the captive parts of me have started to emerge. I realize that I am smoke, that the things that define me rise as they would up a chimney, probin…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
6. The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
By: Olga Ravn
3.67
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A workplace novel of the 22nd century The near-distant future. Millions of kilometres from Earth… read more
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- science fiction
- novella
- adult
- fiction
"This is not a human, but a coworker."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
"Cada ação encerra em si um elemento de caos."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
"Tudo precisa atravessar enormes distâncias para se tornar o que é."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
"Eu também tenho em mim palavras apagadas que deveria ter dito e já não sei mais o que significam."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
7. The Odyssey
By: Lara Williams
3.09
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the prize-winning author of Supper Club comes a wickedly funny and slyly poignant new satire o… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"I guess it should have made me more protective of myself or something. More cautious with what I give away. But I actually do the opposite. Give people more than what they ask for. To get it over wit…"-Lara Williams, The Odyssey
8. Children of Paradise
By: Camilla Grudova
3.49
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
When Holly applies for a job at the Paradise - one of the city's oldest cinemas, squashed into the … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- thriller
- horror
- adult
9. Kick the Latch
By: Kathryn Scanlan
4.11
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Kathryn Scanlan’s Kick the Latch vividly captures the arc of one woman’s life at the racetrack—the … read more
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- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
10. Is Mother Dead
By: Vigdis Hjorth
3.80
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
A cat and mouse game of surveillance and psychological torment develops between a middle-aged artis… read more
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- thriller
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"Den första sång jag höra fick, var mor som grät vid vaggan"-Vigdis Hjorth, Is Mother Dead
"Det händer att det som inte sker är det viktigaste som händer en dag"-Vigdis Hjorth, Is Mother Dead
"We all carry our mothers like a hole in our souls, small or big, living or dead."-Vigdis Hjorth, Is Mother Dead
"A mother can never be an ordinary human being to her children, and I am one of her children."-Vigdis Hjorth, Is Mother Dead
11. Brainwyrms
By: Alison Rumfitt
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless — “a triumph of transgressive queer horror… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- thriller
- horror
- adult
12. Termush
By: Sven Holm
3.31
Format: 119 pages, Paperback
Introduced by Jeff VanderMeer, welcome to a luxury hotel at the end of the world in this post-apoca… read more
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- science fiction
- novella
- short stories
- fiction
"An inspired lie could be preferred to a malignant truth."-Sven Holm, Termush
"I must ask myself whether I am not colouring what I see with my own views."-Sven Holm, Termush
"- I do have some faith in democracy, but I don't think that this vote can be regarded as a matter of course as democratic. The voters knew too little about the alternatives. - They are always Ill-inf…"-Sven Holm, Termush
13. My Annihilation
By: Fuminori Nakamura
3.34
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
What transforms a person into a killer? Can it be something as small as a suggestion? Turn this … read more
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- thriller
- adult
- fiction
- horror
"Aristotle, the scholar from ancient times, supposedly said "Even gods cannot change the past." In which case, the gods are useless."-Fuminori Nakamura, My Annihilation
"Take a look around the internet. The ditches into which all evil is eventually swept. People hide their faces and type away without a care, no self-awareness for how their words will be picked up by …"-Fuminori Nakamura, My Annihilation
14. The Membranes
By: Chi Ta-wei
3.98
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
It is the late twenty-first century, and Momo is the most celebrated dermal care technician in all … read more
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- science fiction
- novella
- adult
- fiction
15. Walking Practice
By: Dolki Min
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Squid Game meets The Left Hand of Darkness meets Under the Skin in this radical literary sensation … read more
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- novella
- fiction
- horror
- science fiction
- adult
"I’ve invested close to ten years of my time figuring out what exactly their criteria are. My conclusion is that there are no such criteria."-Dolki Min, Walking Practice
"Criteria are like glass. As long as they are respected and held without dropping them, they’ll stay solid and won’t break. I made myself complicit in humanity’s scam and adapted myself to the local e…"-Dolki Min, Walking Practice
"Do I exist in the same physical space as other people? Can I really seek joy and pleasure together with them? Why does the path become narrower the further I walk down it? Why is every place I go to …"-Dolki Min, Walking Practice
"He’s a real fucking dog. Ah, forgive me. I’ve accidentally lumped dogs in with the likes of him. I would like to give a sincere apology to all the dogs of Earth. I can almost hear their complaints no…"-Dolki Min, Walking Practice
16. The Country Will Bring Us No Peace
By: Matthieu Simard
3.66
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Simon and Marie can't seem to have a baby. And so they flee the city for an idyllic village, where … read more
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- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- thriller
- horror
17. Harlequin Butterfly
By: Toh EnJoe
3.37
Format: 105 pages, Paperback
A surreal novella about the global pursuit of a mysterious writer who somehow writes in dozens of l… read more
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- science fiction
- novella
- short stories
- fiction
18. Carnality
By: Lina Wolff
3.68
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In this latest novel from the award-winning author of The Polyglot Lovers, a writer searching for i… read more
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- contemporary
- thriller
- fiction
- horror
"Ada rose even more in my estimation at that. I realized she had got completely lost in the male narrative and her mind, which had to be both sensitive and sharp, had been absorbing fragments of it he…"-Lina Wolff, Carnality
19. The Rooftop
By: Fernanda Trías
3.77
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
‘The world is this house’, says Clara while she is trying to protect her beloved ones from the worl… read more
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- contemporary
- novella
- fiction
- horror
20. The Coiled Serpent
By: Camilla Grudova
3.75
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
A little girl throws up Gloria-Jean's teeth after an explosion at the custard factory; Pax, Alexand… read more
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- contemporary
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
21. The Doloriad
By: Missouri Williams
3.14
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In the wake of a mysterious environmental cataclysm that has wiped out the rest of humankind, the M… read more
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- contemporary
- science fiction
- fiction
- horror
"...the story of the city was always a story of disintegration."-Missouri Williams, The Doloriad
"...and one day the rain would wash them away entirely, the sounds of the dead city and her memories of them, and then the Matriarch would finally be free of it—the past and its language."-Missouri Williams, The Doloriad
"...the way that the words hung together to produce meaning had a logic that he could not follow, and sometimes he thought that this was because they spoke in images, immediate, sensuous images, that …"-Missouri Williams, The Doloriad
22. Lord Jim at Home (McNally Editions)
By: Dinah Brooke
3.77
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
When Dinah Brooke’s second novel, Lord Jim at Home, was first published in 1973, it was described a… read more
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- fiction
- horror
23. Jackdaw
By: Tade Thompson
3.66
Format: 156 pages, Kindle Edition
In this shocking, and at times darkly comic, novel, a psychiatrist hired to write a short piece on … read more
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- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- science fiction
- thriller
- horror
- adult
24. Hysteria
By: Jessica Gross
3.03
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
In HYSTERIA, we meet a young woman an hour into yet another alcohol-fueled, masochistic, sexual ben… read more
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- thriller
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
25. Kitchen Curse
By: Eka Kurniawan
3.52
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The acclaimed, Booker-nominated novelist's first book of stories Hailed as a Southeast Asian Gab… read more
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- contemporary
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
26. Goodnight Tokyo
By: Atsuhiro Yoshida
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A symphony of interconnected lives that offers a compelling reflection on life in modern-day metrop… read more
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- short stories
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
27. Hellebore #1: The Sacrifice Issue
By: Maria J. Pérez Cuervo
4.39
Format: 68 pages, Paperback
Hellebore is a poisonous plant that has the power of altering perception, and it's thought to be on… read more
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- horror
28. A Sunny Place for Shady People
By: Mariana Enríquez
3.81
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with … read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- thriller
- horror
- adult
29. Private Rites
By: Julia Armfield
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- science fiction
- horror
- adult
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"-Julia Armfield, Private Rites
30. In Repair
By: A.L. Graziadei
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Nathaniel Conti doesn’t feel real when he’s alone. Maybe that’s why he has a reputation as a troub… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
31. The Seers
By: Sulaiman Addonia
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Seers tells the story of an Eritrean refugee in London, moving between past and present to expl… read more
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- fiction
